Category: Social Media

Dear Faculty Colleagues, The final Faculty Forum of the year takes place this coming Friday, May 18th and will feature Nutrition’s Debbie Fetter and Communications’ Martin Hilbert sharing their experiences teaching online. As online courses become increasingly prevalent in higher education, this faculty forum will provide participating faculty an opportunity to reflect on their own […]

Dear Faculty Colleagues, You are invited to a bonus DOLCE this Friday, May 11th. This bonus DOLCE will preview Dr. Andy Jones (that’s me!) and Alex Rockey’s accepted presentation “Envisioning a Digital Learning Environment at University of California, Davis: A space for pedagogical discovery and play.” In just two short weeks, we will present this […]

As has been mentioned in several DOLCE events, members of our ATS staff have been working for more than a year on a diversity and inclusion grant project entitled Share You. The goal of Share You is to curate a multimedia dialogue about how members of our UC Davis community promote and live diversity […]

Dear Faculty Colleagues, You may have noticed that The Wheel has a new look. We have been collaborating with our talented colleagues in Academic Technology Services to develop this new site with an emphasis on streamlining and forefronting our Twitter stream. As the editors of an instructional technology blog, we are constantly working on ways […]

Dear Faculty Colleagues, I write to invite you to our May 5th DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting in 1310 Surge III / The Grove, at which time we will hear from Janine Wilson of the Department of Economics. She will tell us about her work transforming a face-to-face Microeconomics class into […]

Dear Colleagues, I would like to remind you or make you aware of a resource Academic Technology Services developed to assist faculty in utilizing and implementing our new LMS: Canvas. Getting Started with UC Davis Canvas is a resource you could use to help you transition to Canvas, and to help you design your course […]

UC Davis Academic Technology Services is hiring a Graduate Research Student to work with our Instructional Designers in assisting faculty with instructional technology needs. The ideal candidate will have experience in research, teaching and learning, excellent communication skills, and knowledge of instructional technologies. This is a 50% position with the standard tuition remission and GRS salary. Please […]

The second Friday of the month is upon us, and that means it’s time for Academic Technology Services (ATS) to share with you a FLIP workshop. This month FLIP, standing for “The Future of Learning In Practice,” will focus on Digital Storytelling in Higher Education. We hope you will join us Friday, March 13, noon – 1:00, at Academic […]